...okay, but there have in fact been quite a number of people who make high quality comments normally, who have complained and made the costs to them known, expressed that time based decay would have been better… and you haven’t changed it.
in particular, someone who’s name escapes me right now who was new to the site and wrote carefully reasoned comments every time, but who was saying things highly critical of most things she commented on—and who was quite careful to not use emotive language—was getting downvoted consistently, got rate limited, and nearly immediately left the site.
We definitely need to separate “some types of comments get incorrectly downvoted” from “throttling is harmful in some cases”. It drives me nuts that some kinds of criticism get downvoted, even when they’re well-made and relevant. But I don’t see any solution that doesn’t have very large reduction in the overall information content of voting.
There’s no software solution but when you actually see such criticism you can vote it up strongly.
If we have enough experienced people in this community who have the karma to cast strong votes and willingness to do it, the problem is solvable.
Not sure who you are referring to, but we made some tweaks to various parts of the system of the last few months, so decent chance it wouldn’t happen again.
I currently am reasonably happy when I review who gets rate limited when, though it’s definitely not easy to see the full effects of it. I think a time decay would make it a lot worse.
...okay, but there have in fact been quite a number of people who make high quality comments normally, who have complained and made the costs to them known, expressed that time based decay would have been better… and you haven’t changed it.
in particular, someone who’s name escapes me right now who was new to the site and wrote carefully reasoned comments every time, but who was saying things highly critical of most things she commented on—and who was quite careful to not use emotive language—was getting downvoted consistently, got rate limited, and nearly immediately left the site.
We definitely need to separate “some types of comments get incorrectly downvoted” from “throttling is harmful in some cases”. It drives me nuts that some kinds of criticism get downvoted, even when they’re well-made and relevant. But I don’t see any solution that doesn’t have very large reduction in the overall information content of voting.
There’s no software solution but when you actually see such criticism you can vote it up strongly. If we have enough experienced people in this community who have the karma to cast strong votes and willingness to do it, the problem is solvable.
Not sure who you are referring to, but we made some tweaks to various parts of the system of the last few months, so decent chance it wouldn’t happen again.
I currently am reasonably happy when I review who gets rate limited when, though it’s definitely not easy to see the full effects of it. I think a time decay would make it a lot worse.